W. UDEN & SONS FUNERAL DIRECTORS LONDON AND KENT

Our family has served the local communities of London, Bromley and Kent for over 135 years. During that time we have consistently provided a caring and professional service individually tailored to every family's wishes and needs. We are always dedicated to deliver our best when it comes to funeral services which has gained us a great reputation as funeral directors.

Our branches and services are traditional and firmly based on our family values; ensuring you receive all the support you require. All our branches in London and Kent - Eltham, Sidcup, Biggin Hill, Southwark, Orpington, Bexleyheath - have their own chapels of rest, whilst our immaculate luxurious Jaguar fleet provide your loved one and family and friends, with the dignity that the day demands.

A member of our family or team is always available to speak with; via telephone, at our offices, or in the privacy of your own home. We sincerely hope that you find the information you require on our website. However, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our services are detailed below, and, as you only have one opportunity to arrange a loved one's funeral, please trust our family to look after your family at this time in need.

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Roger Lesley & Adam Diggens

Sorry to take so long in thanking you for the for the excellent arrangements and the superb services for our son Antony. The care and attention we received in your Bexleyheath office and on the day of his funeral could not have been better.

We would have no hesitation in recommending your company and your services to anyone looking for funeral directors in London.

Martin Owen

I wanted to express you gratitude, in writing, on behalf of the entire Owen family, for the wonderful services you performed for us last week in your Southwark office. You are all gentleman and true professionals. You carried out your role with expert care and exquisite attention to detail. I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone looking for funeral directors in London.

John, Marjory and Alison Lewis

We never had a chance after returning from the crematorium in Eltham to properly express gratitude to you and your team for the very kind and professional way in which the funeral was conducted. Every aspect was exactly as Margaret would have wanted it and we are most grateful for your help and guidance in achieving this.

We would like to wish you and all the staff a peaceful and happy Christmas.

Linda Hackshaw

I am writing to thank everyone at Udens Funeral Directors involved with mum’s funeral for helping to turn a sad day into such a beautiful occasion and delivering such a great service.

From my initial contact with Len at Petts Wood -Kent- who gave superb ongoing help and advice on the whole procedure and perfect recommendations for the location and celebrant, to visiting mum looking peaceful and beautiful in the chapel of rest and, finally, to the superb professional service from all the Udens team on the day, I could not have wished for any better for my lovely mum.

All of my friends and family who attended on the day have had nothing but praise for everything from start to finish, and with Udens’ help I managed to achieve a true celebration of the life of an incredible lady.

Michael Orford

I just wanted to take this opportunity on behalf of myself and my family to thank you and you staff most sincerely for all of your help in the organisation and running of my late father’s funeral on Thursday. We were very impressed with the calm and caring professionalism you exhibited in your Eltham office and for all your hard work for making the day run as smoothly and trouble free as it did.

James Warren

I just wanted to drop you a note to pass on our thanks for arranging the service for Peter so professionally last Friday.

We were initially passed your details by a friend, Jane Ranasinghe, and I certainly will have no problems in joining her in recommending them to anyone looking for funeral directors in London.

All your staff were kind, professional and extremely well turned out, and everything ran like clockwork. Your celebrant, Graham Horak did a fantastic job of capturing Peter’s spirit, and with his help and guidance we gave dad a great send off.

Sharon

I just wanted to drop you a line to extend our grateful thanks to Darryl and the rest of the team for their utter professionalism attending to the funeral services of our dad Michael Hillier on Friday 18th May.

From our initial consultation with yourself to the day of the funeral the guys carried themselves with grace, dignity and respect from beginning to end despite the somewhat colourful conversations in the cars!

All the mourners commented on their service and I can honestly say it greatly helped us on the most difficult of days. I would certainly recommend your services to others.

Best wishes

Sharon

Fr. Owen Beament

There is no way that James and I and our family can ever adequately thank you for looking after us all last Friday. It could not have been a more specially cared for occasion and all the arrangements were more than prefect.

Lots of people commented on the style and dignity with which the funeral was taken but that is not surprising. What has touched us so deeply is the kindness and care which you have shown over the past two weeks. Your sincerity in all you have done has touched us all very deeply. I hope you may have some idea of the depth of our gratitude.

With all good wishes to Udens Directors.

Fr. Owen Beament.

Kate

I’d just like to express my gratitude for your great service yesterday when conducting my Uncle’s funeral. Robin Trott 13/7/2018. Everything was perfect and we all admired the attention to detail. Being a florist myself, and of course making the flowers for my Uncle, I was so impressed how the flowers were dealt with, so much care taken when handling them, and a lot of thought displaying them and showing them off. The cars looked stunning. As funeral directors, you were always sympathetic, caring, professional at all times.

Kind regards

Kate

Belinda Dench

I would like to express my gratitude to you and your colleagues for everything you did for Geoff, for me, for family and friends from his death to his eventual funeral service and burial. In particular I would like to express my gratitude for your great patience with my indecisiveness, for your efficiency and for the respect and understanding that I was given. I also felt the Pall Bearers honoured Geoff and gave him all the dignity he deserved and I will always be grateful for how beautifully they conducted themselves during the funeral and burial. Both the service and the burial went so well. I really felt that we did Geoff justice and Udens as funeral directors played an incredibly important role in that. Fr. Philip also thought that Adrian and the pallbearers were all fantastic.

Ruth Bradshaw and Bill Ilsley

On behalf of all the family we would like to say a huge thank you for your help and support in organising and preparing for mums/Rosy’s funeral. You were so calm and helpful in our first meeting with you Len, and we were so impressed by the care and attention to detail in every aspect of the lead up to the funeral and on the day itself. Everyone we met in connection with Udens was so calm, kind and respectful. The two guys on the day of the funeral (I’m so sorry as I didn’t catch their names) driving the hearse, were so smartly dressed and all the details we had asked for were adhered to. The day itself was a real celebration of mum/Rosy’s life and it was made better by knowing we were in really safe hands from the start.

Thank you for all the time you gave to us over the three weeks.

Kind Regards

Ruth Bradshaw and Bill Ilsley

London

Charlie.

To every single person involved with my beautiful sister, Pat Ashton's, funeral. It was obviously a desperately sad day for us, but you made it special for her by your sheer professionalism and exquisite touches of pomp and ceremony. Pat would have loved that.

Clive Sturgess

I should like to thank yourself and your colleague, Adrian and the team on the day, plus Spencer at the beginning. It was a pleasure to meet you all given the circumstances! Uden's services regarding all aspects of handling Winifred Joyce Sturgess's funeral arrangements etc were excellent, sympathetic and very professional.

Linda Carter & all the Family

Thank you so much for all the care and thought and kindness you put into making my daughter, Rachael's funeral such a beautiful service. From the first meeting with all the family, through the care taken with Rachael's body in the chapel of rest, to the service itself, you couldn't have done a better job.

Thanks Again

Linda Carter & all the Family

Peter, Mark and David

We wanted to let you know how grateful we are for your help in organising Saturday. From that first difficult conversation we had about Mum’s passing, right up to the conversation the day before the funeral about family challenges - you’ve been so supportive. We really appreciate it all.

Everyone commented on how well it went and how professional, courteous and discreet the team were on the day. We couldn’t have asked for more - please pass on our thanks.

It was of course a sad day, but was also a celebration of Mum’s life and Uden’s helped us achieve that.

Gail Hilder

I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to your family's business, following our tragic loss.

My baby grandson was born asleep, way before his due date of birth. Baby Poppet Morgan was looked after by the wonderully kind and reverent Nigel at your Biggin Hill branch. I cannot speak highly enough of Nigel; he was unfailingly sympathetic, very genuine, courteous and kind. My daughter ( Poppet's mum ) and her husband were unfailingly shown respect and kindness by Nigel. When they visited Poppet whilst in Nigel's care, he always went beyond the call of duty and his consideration of me was also wonderful and sincere.

We could not have chosen a better and more supportive firm at our time of need or found a more caring individual than Nigel. Can I also take this opportunity to mention Darrell; he drove the hearse on the day of Poppet's funeral and was also supportive, respectful and caring to the grieving parents.

Your staff are a credit to your business and I thank you and them for this.

In lieu of your absent charging for the funeral, we will be making a donation to ARC ( ante-natal result choices ) charity in honour of our darling Poppet.

With my thanks,

Gail Hilder.

The Fernandes family

We would like to say a sincere Thank you for all the kindness and care you put into dad’s funeral. Right from the start, the team handled everything with such respect and professionalism. Your guidance and support on the day was so appreciated and we are so grateful to you for this.

Kind Regards,

The Fernandes family.

Jan

I just wanted to personally say a massive "Thank you" to you, Andrew and all of the team for such a professional and wonderful service for Auntie Hilda.

Everyone was made to feel at ease, and Andrew was so supportive and helpful. You and everyone at Udens have turned, what could have been a difficult and traumatic event, into a true celebration of Auntie's life.

I will, of course be back, when the time comes to lay Auntie to rest with Uncle Don and hope to see you then.

Until then...I send my very best regards.

Jan.

Samina, on behalf of all Yasmin's family

Thank you all for your wonderful service and attention to detail at Uden & Sons. Mum's ( Yasmin I Khan ) funeral on 09/01/19 was as perfect as we could have hoped for and you managed to help us find exactly what we needed throughout the process.

The professionalism, respect and compassion of everyone at Udens helped to create a moving, dignified and elegant farewell.

Many people commented on how lovely the service was and we would definitely recommend Uden and Sons to anyone in need of a funeral director. Once again, thanks for the professional and caring service you provided us with.

Jean, Keith & Geraldine Mahoney

Thank you so much for all the wonderful work you did in preparation for Dad's funeral, Patrick Mahoney. We were so pleased with the service received and thank you again.

All good wishes,

Jean, Keith & Geraldine Mahoney.

Uden's Blog

The Fleet. Our Funeral Hearses and Limousines

Over many years as funeral directors we have tried probably anything and everything to make our fleet stand out from the crowd. Nothing makes me prouder than a simple comment of “Wow, look how clean your cars are!” or “That's the shiniest car I’ve ever seen!”; mainly because we spend an awful lot of time and money in making them look in showroom condition and there has been so much effort that has gone into making them look the way that they do.

The Sidcup Chronicles - The Fifth Chapter

As I became accustomed to all the different roles within the funeral trade I started to make suggestions to Matthew as to how we could improve our performance and by doing so, hopefully, increase our trade. We would bounce ideas off each other and used to joke that if we had a hit rate of only 1:10 the company would soon be transformed out of all recognition.
However, it was also necessary to remember that Udens had been in existence for over 130 years and therefore must have been doing somethi

The London Chronicles

Arranging a funeral in London is one of the most stressful tasks ever; not just for the family but also for the funeral director who is invariably walking on eggshells; trying to extract the necessary information without further upsetting the bereaved family. It is incredible the unsolicited information some people are happy to disclose, whilst others have to be coaxed and encouraged to divulge even the basic details.
As part of the arrangement procedure I would always ask about the religion

Ultimate Guide to Funeral Etiquette in UK

As funeral directors in London, we often get asked about the correct etiquette at funerals in the United Kingdom, the order in which the service should take and so on. Our answer is always the same, lets make this service what the family and of course the deceased would have wanted. Of course a framework and a plan is necessary but there are many different types and formats during funerals these days that bespoke funerals seem to be the most fitting way to say goodbye.